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Leslie Waddington, Pioneering Art Dealer, Remembered
ArtfixDaily / December 1st, 2015
A fixture on the international art scene for more than five decades and an esteemed promoter of 20th-century modernist masters, London art dealer Leslie Waddington, 81, passed away on Nov. 30 surrounded by his family. He was born in 1934 in Dublin. Leslie Waddington was Chairman of Waddington ...
Philippines Launches Website for Tips on Missing Marcos Art
Telegraph / November 30th, 2015
Following appraisals of jewelry recovered from Imelda Marcos and stored for decades in a vault, the Philippine government has announced the launch of a website to crowd-source tips on the whereabouts of some 200 missing art works, including paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rembrandt that were ...
Tiny English Town Chosen for Philanthropist's World-Class Spanish Art Collection
Independent / November 27th, 2015
Philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer recently donated £25m to Auckland Castle, the historic home of the bishops of Durham, near Bishop Auckland in County Durham, England. He also gave £5.5m to create a Spanish art gallery and research institute in town. Ruffer plans for the tiny town to ...
Armed Bandits Steal Haul of Masterpieces from Museum in Italy
Telegraph / November 22nd, 2015
Armed bandits stormed a museum in Italy on Thursday and made off with 17 artworks, including masterpieces by Tintoretto, Rubens and Bellini, in one of the country’s biggest art heists, according to the Telegraph. Thought to be a raid for a dubious private collector, one art expert even ...
Inside Iran's Hidden World-Class Modern Art Collection
Bloomberg / November 17th, 2015
As the Tehran Contemporary Art Museum prepares to open its first exhibit of modern art in years on November 20—and plans for international shows—Bloomberg reporter Peter Waldman is the rare Western journalist to go inside the Museum’s locked basement vault to view its hidden collection of the ...
Picasso, Magritte Boost Christie's Sale to $145.5M
Christie's / November 12th, 2015
An example of Analytical Cubism led Christie's evening sale of Impressionist and modern art on Thursday. The solid sale totaled $145.5 million, boosted by several estimate-busting lots and alternately sunk a bit by passed lots. Eighty-three percent of ...
Records Set for Bourgeois, Fontana in $331.8 Million Christie's Sale
ArtfixDaily / November 10th, 2015
Christie's continued on its winning streak Tuesday night with a $331.8 million sale of post-war and contemporary art, just a day after it sold a Modigliani nude portrait for a record-shattering $170.4 million. While not every lot in the sale was a winner (some fell below guarantees/estimates and ...
Modigliani Nude Fetches $170.4 Million, Plus More World Records at Christie's
ArtfixDaily / November 9th, 2015
Naked ladies reclining on couches and a worried-looking nurse were two subjects that resonated with the world's most deep-pocketed buyers of blue-chip art on Monday night. Works by masters Modigliani, Lichtenstein, Courbet and Balthus brought record prices for the artists at ...
Van Gogh Goes For $54 Million, Bill Koch's Picasso Brings $67.5 Million at Sotheby's
ArtfixDaily / November 5th, 2015
A day after the Masterworks sale of the Taubman collection brought a middling $377 million, at the low end of expectations, Sotheby's hammered down $306.7 million in a more upbeat Impressionist and Modern Art sale. Of the 47 lots offered, buyers eschewed several ...
Stella Reaches Record Price in $377 Million Taubman Art Auction
ArtfixDaily / November 4th, 2015
This month's anticipated sales in New York have begun with some of the finest artworks from the Taubman collection bringing a total $377 million, on the low side of its total estimate of $374.8 million to $526.5 million, on Wednesday night at Sotheby's. Several of 77 lots in the ...
Taubman Collection Kicks Off November's $2.1-Billion Auction Series
Bloomberg / November 1st, 2015
About $2.1 billion of art is offered for sale at the major November auctions in New York. Nearly half of that staggering sum is guaranteed--basically already sold since the auction houses (or others) will buy it at a pre-determined price if a bidder does not--making $1 billion in art already ...
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Highlights Something Old, Something New Aesthetic
ArtfixDaily / October 22nd, 2015
Rooted in Victorian times and infused with the energy of today's tech industry, San Francisco is a place where old and new, tradition and innovation, blend seamlessly. West Coast art collectors and designers just as easily mix styles and periods, and flock ...
Appeals Court Rules for Yale to Keep Van Gogh's 'The Night Cafe'
New Haven Register / October 21st, 2015
A 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that Yale University owns Vincent van Gogh's 1888 painting "The Night Café." Pierre Konowaloff had claimed that the work was taken from his great-grandfather Ivan Morozov's collection during the 1918 Bolshevik revolution which nationalized ...
Art Swindler Luke Brugnara Gets 7 Years in Prison
Courthouse News Service / October 21st, 2015
On Tuesday in San Francisco a federal judge sentenced former commercial real estate mogul Luke Brugnara to 7 years in prison for swindling a New York art dealer. The fraud verdict comes after the June 2014 disappearance of millions of dollars worth of art delivered to Brugnara. Art ...
S.F. Fine Arts Museums Refutes Allegations Against Board President
San Francisco Chronicle / October 19th, 2015
Dede Wilsey, the president of the board of trustees at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a major philanthropist, was reported to be under investigation by city officials after a complaint was filed of financial misconduct, according to an Oct. 16 article in the San ...
Double-Sided Picasso, Iconic Monet From Bill Koch Collection to Hit Auction
Sothebys / October 11th, 2015
A rare to market Blue Period painting by Pablo Picasso with a second picture on its reverse will go under the gavel this fall. Sotheby's i offering the Picasso, which reportedly could fetch $60 million, from the collection of energy billionaire William "Bill" I. Koch, known for his ...
Olga Hirshhorn, Art Collector and Widow of Museum Founder, Remembered
Washington Post / October 4th, 2015
Olga Hirshhorn, wife of the late founder of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and known as a significant art collector and patron in her own right, passed away at her home in Naples, Florida on Oct. 3. She was 95. The fourth wife of financier and mining tycoon Joseph Hirshhorn, Olga ...
France and The Netherlands Agree to Jointly Acquire Rembrandts
Guardian / October 1st, 2015
The Netherlands and France will split ownership of a portrait pair painted by Rembrandt after a potential bidding battle was averted. A deal was struck to buy the works at €160m from France's Rothschild banking family. The 1634 full-length double wedding portraits - Portrait of Marten ...
Hermann Goering's Full Catalog of Nazi Looted Art Published for First Time
Telegraph / September 30th, 2015
A registry listing every artwork that Hermann Goering--Hitler's righthand man--looted during the Nazi regime has been published for the first time. The handwritten log has been in French diplomatic archives and only available to scholars. The Goering Catalogue, published by Flammarion, was ...
Ohio Couple Returns Nazi-Looted Baroque Painting to Poland
Washington Post / September 29th, 2015
A Baroque painting that has mostly resided in Ohio since World War II is returning to Poland. Krzysztof Lubieniecki's c. 1728 “Portrait of a Young Man” was taken from Poland's National Museum in Warsaw by the Nazis in 1944 and stashed away in an Austrian castle. On ...